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Infinity

Image of Infinity. Photography: Chris Nash

Australian choreographer Garry Stewart's high energy work, Infinity, explores the dramatic and often brutal passage towards life's inevitable end.

This intuitive and emotional work incorporates elements of gymnastics and yoga, and is inspired in part by the dark Japanese post-war dance style, Butoh. An "animal-like" movement vocabulary manifests itself in strong natural imagery on stage. The dancers inhabit the work like creatures in a landscape.

Skin-like costumes, by concept artist and taxidermist Georg Meyer-Wiel, create the impression of exoskeletons, and Gaelle Mellis' set design of falling rose petals intensifies the mystical timbre of the work.

Luke Smiles' other-worldly new score, using eclectic samples of African and Asian instruments, is hypnotic and captivating, building to a crashing finale.

Pitting the dancers against each other in an avalanche of striking and relentless physical imagery, Infinity ultimately expresses a mental state, and the singularly human aspiration that we might exist, in some form, forever.

View behind the scenes photos of Infinity in rehearsal and publicity photoshoot.

Click here to view a video of Infinity.

PLEASE NOTE: For Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Infinity will not be performed at the Matinée.

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